Boston fire, Winthrop Square, 1872

Item Information

Title:
Boston fire, Winthrop Square, 1872
Description:
Works crews clear rubble from the Great Fire in Winthrop Square with ruins and several intact buildings in the background. Possibly 152 Devonshire, the site of the Freeland, Harding, and Richardson Store, with the Post Office visible in the left corner.
Photographer:
Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896
Date:
1872
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
albumen prints
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC013: James Wallace Black photographic collection of the Boston Fire, 1872
Subjects:
fires (events)
disasters
rubble
ruins
squares (open spaces)
commercial buildings
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Winthrop Square (Boston, Mass.)
Devonshire Street (Boston, Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Maine > Cumberland (county) > South Windham
Parson Smith House - Main House (South Windham, Me.)
Extent:
1 photographic print : albumen, black-and-white, mounted ; 16 1/2 x 12 inches
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/224898
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
224898
Call #:
PC013.TMP.005